Twitter isn't just for earth-shaking revolutions overseas any more. It can turn a case of individual online boorishness into a spontaneous teachable moment that trumps the faux outrage and calls for "a new civility" foisted upon us by the Journolist crowd a few weeks back in the aftermath of the Tucson massacre. In case you missed the individual boorishness story, a few words from The Daily Caller to get up to speed:

The initial tweet by Rosen stated, “Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson. Where was her buddy McCrystal.” From this tweet he went further, writing that he would have been amused if Anderson Cooper had also been sexually assaulted.

"It's the modrin-day version of the village folk whispering behind their shutters" we twittered Big Hollywood Editor-in-Chief John Nolte this morning as news was breaking of Nir Rosen's fall from grace, virtually pilloried for offending common standards of civilized behavior. Who knew we still had those? Thank you, Twitter.

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I think that instantaneous revelations of boorish speech and thought is a very healthy thing.

What happened to Lara Logan shouldn't happen on the streets of any major city in the so-called civilized world. And anyone, male or female, who considers that assault as anything other than the horrendous act of violence it was is a deplorable boob! Rape isn't about sex, it's about violence, control and power. Liberals say that all the time, but like many of the things they say, they don't really mean it or believe it!

Liberal men are terrified of liberal women, with good reason. I've never seen such a humorless, militantly nasty bunch of critters in my entire life!

If liberal men were honest (not a trait often associated with the left), they'd prefer Sarah Palin to any left wing female! I suspect that's what drive the vitriol against Sarah Palin - the insecurities of left-wing women who know darned well that, given the choice, most men will go for women like us rather than women like them. Men don't really like strident, combative, vicious-tongued companions who don't bathe as often as they should and cannot cook a lick because they think it's beneath their intellectual pose.